Research

Mr. Trennert is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Strategas and its related companies. In addition, as Chief Investment Strategist, Mr. Trennert is known as one of Wall Street’s top thought leaders on the subject of markets and economic policy. His research pieces are read by leading institutional investors and corporate executives across the globe.

In 2006, Mr. Trennert co-founded Strategas, which originally began with just five employees. Today, the firm employs over fifty research analysts, institutional salesmen, and sales traders at its offices in New York and Washington D.C. Prior to founding Strategas, Mr. Trennert was the Chief Investment Strategist and a Senior Managing Director at International Strategy & Investment (ISI) Group where he built and oversaw two of that Firm’s most popular research efforts, its Company Surveys, and Investment Strategy groups. Widely quoted in the domestic and foreign press, Jason is a regular guest on business news programs broadcast by CNBC, CNBC Italia, Fox Business News, and Bloomberg TV, among others. He is the author of three books about investing and the investment business. My Side of the Street was published by St. Martin’s Press in May 2015. He has authored several op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Investor’s Business Daily.

He is committed to a number of Italian, Italian-American, and Catholic causes in New York and abroad. For his efforts he was honored at the 66th Annual Columbus Day parade in New York and was awarded the honorific of Cavaliere by the Republic of Italy on June 2, 2017. Mr. Trennert is a member of the investment committees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the National WWII Museum.

He has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and BS in International Economics from Georgetown University.

Mr. Rissmiller is a founding Partner of Strategas and has directed the Firm's macroeconomic research efforts since 2006. He oversees Strategas' thematic research as well as high-frequency econometric forecasting.

Prior to co-founding Strategas in 2006, Mr. Rissmiller was an Economist and Managing Director at International Strategy & Investment (ISI) Group. Before joining ISI, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, focusing on the analysis of U.S. macroeconomic data and price/wage forecasting models. He is frequently quoted in the financial press. He has been the president of the Forecasters Club of New York, a local group of economists. He serves on the board of the Global Interdependence Center (GIC) based in Philadelphia.

Mr. Rissmiller's research has been recognized by Institutional Investor magazine in their annual survey: he was ranked best up and coming economist in 2008, and was 3rd in their 2009 All-America Independent Research Team survey. Mr. Rissmiller holds an AB magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard.

Daniel Clifton is a Partner and Head of Policy Research for Strategas Securities. In this capacity, Mr. Clifton evaluates the financial market implications of policy and political developments. This includes analyzing trade, tax, healthcare, energy, and other policy initiatives to determine how public policy changes impact the economy and financial markets for institutional investors.

Daniel leads the #1 ranked Washington policy team on Wall Street according to Institutional Investor magazine. Mr. Clifton has been ranked as a top Washington policy analyst in each of the past eleven years. Daniel is also a top ranked analyst in the category of Tax and Accounting Policy.

Mr. Clifton’s research on the interaction between policy, elections, and financial markets is widely cited in the media and Daniel is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business.

Prior to joining Strategas, Mr. Clifton was Executive Director of the American Shareholders Association (ASA), a non-partisan, non-profit organization which analyzes public policy affecting shareholders. In this capacity, Daniel was part of coalitions that successfully lowered capital gains and dividend tax rates to 15 percent in 2003, a repatriation tax holiday on foreign source revenue in 2004, and reform of the nation’s private-sector pension system.

Prior to joining ASA, Mr. Clifton lobbied for tax reform and served as a senior staff member in two gubernatorial administrations working on economic and fiscal policy issues. Daniel has also worked in various capacities on elections at federal, state, and local levels.

Mr. Clifton received both his BA in Urban Planning and his MS in Public Policy from Rutgers University where he was a Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and a Harold Martin Fellow for Public Policy.

Mr. Verrone is a partner of Strategas and is the head of the Firm’s Technical Strategy & Macro Research team. He is also a member of the Firm’s Asset Allocation committee. His regularly published research highlights actionable investment opportunities across the equity, commodity, foreign exchange, and fixed income markets.

Chris is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg Television and Fox Business, and is often quoted in the domestic and foreign financial press. He is consistently ranked among the top macro analysts on Wall Street in the annual All-America Research Survey by Institutional Investor magazine, and is particularly known for combining a rigorous examination of financial history with empirically driven analysis.

Prior to joining Strategas, Mr. Verrone worked with the Economics team at International Strategy & Investment (ISI) Group and at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Chris holds a MA in Political Science from Villanova University and a BA in International Political Economy, also from Villanova. He is also active with the Delbarton School Alumni Association. Chris, his wife, Caroline, and their two daughters, Maggie and Reagan, reside in Connecticut.

Mr. Bohnsack is co-founder of Strategas and serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Firm’s institutional broker-dealer, Strategas Securities. He is responsible for the Firm’s institutional securities businesses with enterprise and strategic responsibility for Macro Research, Sales & Trading, and Capital Markets, and with oversight of the Firm’s Finance, Compliance, Technology, and Operations units. He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Strategas Asset Management, the Firm’s affiliated $550 million AUM/A macro-thematic investment management firm, and co-chairs its Investment Policy Committee.

Nicholas co-founded Strategas in 2006. After a decade building the Firm in private partnership, Strategas Securities and Strategas Asset Management were acquired by Baird Financial Group in 2018. In addition to continuing as president of Strategas, now operating independently as wholly-owned Baird subsidiary companies, he is a Managing Director of Baird and a member of that Firm’s Operating Committee. Prior to co-founding Strategas, Mr. Bohnsack was an Investment Strategist and Associate Managing Director with International Strategy & Investment (ISI) Group and began his career in the Investment Banking Group at FactSet and in Restricted Securities at Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Bohnsack received his MS in Mathematics from Fairfield University and received bachelor's degrees in Economics and Finance from Bryant University. He is a member of the Board of Advisors at Bryant University's College of Business. Nicholas and his wife, Brooke, live in Connecticut with their three sons.

Mr. Tzitzouris is a Director at Strategas, directing the Firm's fixed income research efforts. His work touches on all aspects of broad market fixed income strategy, as well as clients' asset/liability management needs.

His focus includes interest rate and credit term structure strategies, callable bond analysis, sector relative value research, and valuation analysis for Treasury, Agency, and high grade corporates.

Prior to joining Strategas, Mr. Tzitzouris worked as a senior analyst at Fannie Mae, leading Fannie's independent debt valuation team, and had previously spent time as a debt and derivatives analyst at Freddie Mac.

Mr. Tzitzouris began his career as a quantitative research analyst with JPMorgan Asset Management's fixed income group. Mr. Tzitzouris holds a BS in Finance from Bryant University, an MS in Mathematics from Fairfield University, and an MA in Economics from George Mason University.

Mr. Ore is a Director and Head of Industry Surveys at Strategas with responsibility for construction of internal indices, analysis of external surveys, and assisting clients in identifying global trends in manufacturing and services.

Following his career as a supply manager for Fortune 250 companies, he has been a successful entrepreneur, business process consultant, and an advocate for small-disadvantaged businesses. As an acknowledged leader in supply chain management, he has attained the status of Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) and Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.).

Additionally, he is a winner of the prestigious J. Shipman Gold Medal, which is presented for leadership in the field. He is best known for his work as the Chair of the ISM Manufacturing Report on Business ®, the monthly economic report recognized as a leading indicator of the U.S. economy.

During Mr. Ore's 15 years as chair, he introduced business survey analysis to numerous organizations in the U.S. and internationally. He has also been instrumental in the establishment of similar surveys, most recently in Taiwan. He holds an undergraduate degree in business and a master's degree in organizational management.